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Gohmert: IRS ‘would have shot the Boston Tea Party’
Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) on Friday declared that the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) would have murdered the participants of the original 1773 Boston Tea Party and and would have “killed off” half of the Founding Fathers who signed the Declaration of Independence. In a 30-minute floor speech to express his…
Colbert: How dare you cast aspersions on Louie Gohmert’s asparagus!
Thursday night on “The Colbert Report,” host Stephen Colbert replayed one of the stranger moments from Attorney General Eric Holder’s testimony on Capitol Hill Wednesday. At the end of a heated exchange with holder, Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) accused the AG of attempting to “cast aspersions on my asparagus.” “Folks,…
Eric Holder politely informs Rep. Gohmert he doesn’t know what he is talking about
At a House Judiciary Committee hearing on Wednesday, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder chided Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) for disparaging the FBI without evidence. Gohmert criticized the FBI over its handling of Boston bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev. The congressman alleged the government was more aggressive towards Christian evangelist Franklin Graham…
Gohmert: Muslim Brotherhood members ‘have influence’ in White House
Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) revisited the anti-Muslim accusations lobbied by Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MI) last year in a radio interview, Think Progress reported on Saturday. “Radical Islam is at war with us,” Gohmert said in an interview on Thursday with World Net Daily radio. “Thank God for the moderates that…
Gohmert: Boy Scouts should keep gay ban because of Mark Foley
Appearing on the Family Research Council’s radio show, Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) said he’s disappointed that Democrats do not support banning gay people from the Boy Scouts of America, mainly because former Rep. Mark Foley (R-FL) was revealed to have made sexual advances toward underage congressional staffers. “Back when there…
Republican’s slippery slope on gun control leads to same sex marriage and sex with animals
Republican Rep. Louie Gohmert of Texas on Tuesday said he opposed limits on the size of gun magazines because it was a slippery slop like same sex marriage. In a conference call promoting the group Tea Party Unity, the congressman explained why he opposed limiting the number rounds in a…
Gohmert: ‘Vietnam was winnable,’ but ‘people in Washington decided’ to lose
Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) on Thursday asserted that the U.S. war in “Vietnam was winnable, but people in Washington decided we would not win it!” “One of the things that we’ve heard over and over again since Vietnam is, you know, we don’t want to get in another un-winnable war…
Luke Russert: Gohmert’s golf ban on Obama ‘reveals a pettiness on both sides’
NBC News correspondent Luke Russert on Wednesday asserted that “it’s actually really true” that a Republican attempt to stop President Barack Obama from playing golf “looks bad on both sides.” Earlier this week, Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) had proposed an amendment to ban the president from playing golf until he…
Rep. Louie Gohmert: The sequester an Obama conspiracy to fund ‘ACORN-like groups’
Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) suggested Wednesday the sequester was a conspiracy by President Barack Obama to cut defense spending and raise money for community organizing groups. Speaking on the House floor, Gohmert said the timing of Obama’s meeting with congressional leaders over the sequester was evidence the President really wanted…
Gohmert: Voters need ‘at least 50 rounds’ in magazines to take out drones
Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) says constituents are telling him that high-capacity magazines should not be banned because people need “at least 50 rounds” to shoot down government drones. During Thursday interview on Freedom 107 radio, host Jeff Akin asked the Texas Republican how he felt about using unnamed aerial drones…
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